About UsDocuments was established in March of 2002by Karen Needles, professional educator, with 15 years of teaching experience, and working with technology since 1985. She has worked as an educational consultant with IBM, Discovery Channel and Cable in the Classroom, Turner Learning, and Harpweek. In 1999, she relocated to the Maryland area, and accepted a job with the Library of Congress as an Educational Consultant with the National Digital Library project. For three and a half years, she trained teachers and students around the country, how to navigate and use the American Memory collections. As a history teacher by trade, and knowing that history classrooms receive little or no budgets for resources, she established Documents on Wheels, to provide such resources from the National Archives and Records Administration, and from the Library of Congress. She currently performs research for leading Lincoln authors and has been acknowledged in several books, including Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals", James Swanson's "Manhunt", Ron Soodalter's "Hanging Captain Gordon, Mathew Pinsker's "Lincoln's Sanctuary", and Ron White Jr.'s "The Eloquent President". On February 12, 2006, she launched Lincolnarchives.us. This website, in preparation for the Lincoln Bicentennial is devoted to the scholarly study of the Lincoln administration. Digitizing records from the National Archives and Records Administration, as well as items from collections in the Manuscripts Division, Maps Division, Photographs Division, Newspaper Division, and Rare Books, from the Library of Congress, the goal is to provide the 'one stop' source for Lincoln resources. Send questions and comments to: documentsonwheels@yahoo.com |
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